Thanks Tom,

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/logfile-maintenance.html

I'll go over this documentation.

Thanks again
Randy
 

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:37 PM
To: Randy How
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FW: Serverlog 100GB 

"Randy How" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We're running PostGres on linux, version 8.1.x. on a new server for a 
> few weeks.  And the serverlog just consumed the rest of the disk space 
> - 100GB log file.  Wow, that's a personal record.

Perhaps choose less verbose logging settings?  But really the correct answer
to this is to set up a logfile rotation schedule, which you can easily do
with either syslog or redirect_stderr log methods.  I'd lean to the latter
myself.

                        regards, tom lane

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